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Have you ever known deep in your gut what your dream is, but you aren’t currently living in it?
Or maybe you commit to living your dream but don’t even know where to start.
If you could sit down and have coffee with someone who turned $1,000 into $15,000 during the pandemic while helping others and working less, then would you?
Because today we are doing just that as we listen to how Dr. Omotola Akinsola as she shares all her secrets and how she overcame challenges.
But even if you are not looking to open a freelance grant writing biz, and you run a nonprofit, you will also want to catch this as she is going to spill all in how she has also continued to grow a thriving nonprofit after doing a needs assessment. Due to that, her nonprofit has served more than 8,000 students and teachers in Nigeria.
This episode is definitely for you if:
✔️ You want to start or grow a nonprofit
✔️ You want to turn leads from being those that ghost you into high paying customers
✔️ You are a parent and need to balance running a business with being home with your kids
✔️ You want to find out how to price and charge clients
✔️ You want to be inspired because you need something positive to listen today (yes, Tola is that amazing!)
✔️ You want a free coupon on Tola's Grant Writing Made Easy for Nonprofit! Check out www.grantwritingandfunding.com/135
Today’s Dr. Akinsola shares behind-the-scenes on:
✔️ How she grew up in poverty in Nigeria and followed her dreams in taking big risks
✔️ How the education strike made her start to do her own personal and professional development
✔️ Her Fab 6 heroes include: Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, and her parents
✔️ How she burned all her bridges to do the massive things she wanted to do
✔️ How and why she attended university in the States
✔️ Why and How she did a focus group before launching a nonprofit
✔️ How she opened a nonprofit in Nigeria while being a student in the States
✔️ How her nonprofit in Nigeria has trained more than 8,000s of students and teachers
✔️ When and how she opened her freelance grant writing biz; The Funding Magnet
✔️ How she created a product after talking to 300 nonprofits
✔️ How the Freelance Grant Writing Master Course changed her business and she 15X her investment within a matter of months
✔️ How she has diversified her streams of income
✔️ How she learned how to create passive income
✔️ How she learned her value and how to price
✔️ How a one-hour consultation helped her raise $5,000 for her nonprofit
✔️ How she realized she was wasting her time with dead leads and started getting clients with less drain
Quit your toxic nonprofit job and replace your full-time income while writing grants part-time, from home! Join our students in the Freelance Grant Writer Academy to create Financial Stability and Flexibility through writing grants for causes you are passionate about: https://grantwritingandfunding.com/freelance-grant-writer-academy
World-renowned grant writing expert and Amazon bestselling author Holly Rustick provides coaching that helps new and experienced grant writers replace their full-time income while writing grants part-time from home (or anywhere they want to live or travel in the world).
She coaches changemakers to master grant writing and start to grow 6-figure+ grant writing businesses on part-time hours via her signature group program, “Freelance Grant Writer Academy."
As an unapologetic feminist, Holly’s work in coaching female grant writers to master grant writing, find their cause-area niche, and navigate value-based pricing and nonprofit sales is breaking glass ceilings for women all over the world.
Every week, she coaches thousands of people through the top-ranking podcast, Grant Writing & Funding, books on grant writing, and inside the Freelance Grant Writer Academy.
Holly has 20 years of experience in grant writing, and began her freelance grant writing journey back in 2005. While teaching in Kuwait and Indonesia, and then earning a Master’s Degree in International Political Economy in Belgium, Holly saw the light of setting up a virtual-based business in grant writing back in the mid-2000s. Having secured more than $45 million of dollars for nonprofit organizations, and then setting up a multi 6-figure freelance business, Holly has a mission to help female grant writers break out of toxic nonprofit J-O-B-S and create high-level income while freelance grant writing.
Inside the Freelance Grant Writer Academy, students have secured more than $225+ million in grant funding and $4+ million in revenue in their grant writing businesses within two years.
To amplify this work, she is past-president of the Guam Women’s Chamber of Commerce and was appointed to the Guam Business Advisory Task Force as an advisor to the first female governor of Guam. Holly lives on the island of Guam with her beautiful daughter, Isabella.
If you are interested in replacing your full-time income while writing grants part-time from home (or from anywhere in the world!) join the Freelance Grant Writer Academy!